Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pupils saw the piece about the "Street War" [TIME, Nov. 8] and were disgusted. Such words as "tribe" for companions, "Negresses" for colored girls, "Pickaninnies" for children, did not "take" well. A common reference to the affair with correct names would be better. They like to read of colored people when anything of note is given...
Echoes. Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama read the decision of the Fall-Doheny jurors. His white waistcoat swelled with indignation; he hastened to tell his colleagues about it. When they saw him rise from his seat in the back row of the Senate, they knew he would discourse for a half hour. Said he: "I do not want this day to pass without saying a word about a farcical trial&* and miscarriage of justice that has taken place in the city of Washington. I feel that the people of the nation, the law-abiding citizens, the honest...
...went to an auction store. I never saw...
...come to London, for he hopes to find plenty to do here." Eleonore had been rescued from a Rumanian madhouse by an elderly Rumanian countess, after being incarcerated by peasants who believed her a "witch-girl," cursed by her grandmother. Besides the coins flying at her, the observers saw stigmatic markings-teeth marks, weals, pricks-appear on Eleonore's face and arms, spontaneously they were sure...
...traveled twenty miles in storm to replace it. Next year in a grueling three days five of us took out over four hundred cross-logs. I really know that trail now and love it; for with the work went the association with the crew, when we packed, sawed, and chopped together, ate and slept together, saw the sunset together, and talked together around the campfire...